1683

This article is about the year 1683. For the number, see 1683 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1650s  1660s  1670s  – 1680s –  1690s  1700s  1710s
Years:	1680 1681 1682 – 1683 – 1684 1685 1686

1683 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1683 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1683 MDCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2436
Armenian calendar	1132 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	6433
Bengali calendar	1090
Berber calendar	2633
English Regnal year	34 Cha. 2 – 35 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2227
Burmese calendar	1045
Byzantine calendar	7191–7192
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4379 or 4319     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4380 or 4320
Coptic calendar	1399–1400
Discordian calendar	2849
Ethiopian calendar	1675–1676
Hebrew calendar	5443–5444
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1739–1740
- Shaka Samvat	1605–1606
- Kali Yuga	4784–4785
Holocene calendar	11683
Igbo calendar	683–684
Iranian calendar	1061–1062
Islamic calendar	1094–1095
Japanese calendar	Tenna 3 (天和３年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4016
Minguo calendar	229 before ROC 民前229年
Thai solar calendar	2225–2226

1683 (MDCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Julian calendar, the 1683rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 683rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 17th century, and the 4th year of the 1680s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1683 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• April 10 – Charles V, Duke of Lorraine is appointed commander of the Imperial army.
• May 3 – Sultan Mehmed IV enters Belgrade.
• June 6 – The Ashmolean Museum opens as the world's first university museum.
• June 12 – The Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II of England is discovered.

July–December

• July 8 – The Qing dynasty Chinese admiral Shi Lang leads 300 ships with 20,000 troops out of Tongshan, Fujian and sails towards the Kingdom of Tungning, in modern-day Taiwan and Penghu, in order to quell the kingdom in the name of Qing.
• July 14 – A 140,000-man Ottoman force arrives at Vienna and starts to besiege the city.
• July 16 and July 17 – Battle of Penghu: Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang defeats the naval forces of Zheng Keshuang in a decisive victory.
• September 5 – The Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang receives the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang, ushering in the collapse of the Kingdom of Tungning, which is then incorporated into the Qing Empire.

Vienna Battle, 1683

• September 12 – Battle of Vienna: The Ottoman siege of the city is broken with the arrival of a force of 70,000 Poles, Austrians and Germans under Polish–Lithuanian king Jan III Sobieski, whose cavalry turns their flank (considered to be the turning point in the Ottoman Empire's fortunes).
• October 3 – Shi Lang reaches Taiwan and occupies present day Kaohsiung.
• October 6 – Germantown, Philadelphia is founded as the first permanent German settlement in North America (in 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan declares a 300th Year Celebration, and in 1987, it becomes an annual holiday, German-American Day).
• November 1 – The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
• December – The River Thames freezes, allowing a frost fair to be held.

Date unknown

• Wild boars are hunted to extinction in Britain.

Births

• January 13 – Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760)
• February 28 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757)
• March 1 – Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II of Great Britain (d. 1737); her birthdate was associated with Saint David's Day, for example in plate 4 of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress
• April 3 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749)
• June 23 – Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
• September 7 – Maria Anna of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal (d. 1754)
• September 11 – Farrukhsiyar, Mughal Emperor (d. 1719)
• September 25 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
• October 17 – Aixin-Jueluo Yuntang, born Aixin-Jueluo Yintang, Qing prince (d. 1726)
• October 25 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
• November 10 – King George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
• November 30 – Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
• December 19 – King Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
• December 27 – Conyers Middleton, English minister (d. 1750)

Deaths

• January 21 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (b. 1621)
• February 18 – Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
• March 19 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
• March 29 – Yaoya Oshichi, young Japanese girl burned at the stake for arson (b. 1667)
• July 10 – François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
• July 13 – Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
• July 30 – Maria Theresa of Spain, first wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
• August 18 – Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
• August 24 – John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
• September 6 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619)
• September 12 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
• October 25 – William Scroggs, lord chief justice of England (b. c. 1623)
• December 7
  • John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)
  • Algernon Sidney, English politician (b. 1623)
• December 15 – Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593)